It’s been a fantastic year for new music, and we’ve posted our Top Twenty for 2017 on the website. Click to see the list. Our favourite album of the year is Honest Life by Courtney Marie Andrews. Given that our Top Twenty started out with 54 albums, we could easily have had an entirely different…

Pre-sale of the week is Invisible Storm by Turin Brakes, out on 26 January. Turin Brakes don’t hang about. After seven studio albums and a million records sold worldwide, they could’ve been excused a bit of downtime … but 2016 saw them return with critically acclaimed album Lost Property, coupled with 18 months touring. But…